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 Wallace Stevens - Hartford, CT Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 43.439 W 072° 42.166
18T E 691077 N 4621681
The grave of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Wallace Stevens is located in Cedar hill Cemetery, 453 Fairfield, Avenue, Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WMW3MC
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2017
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The grave of Wallace Stevens is marked by a granite family headstone and rectangular marker at ground level. The family headstone tastefully decorated with a pair of lilies framing an old English font inscription:
Reading, Pennsylvania
October 2, 1879
Hartford, Connecticut
August 2, 1955
His wife
Elsie Viola Rachel
June 5, 1886
February 19, 1963
Description:
Wallace Stevens was an American poet born in Reading, PA in 1879. He attended Harvard University and the New York Law School then, in 1916, he joined the Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, serving as vice president from 1934 until his death in 1955. He is considered one of the foremost modern American poets and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his work Collected Poems. He was a master at style. His poems featured an extraordinary vocabulary, memorable phrasing, and rigorous precision.
His first major publication (four poems from a sequence entitled "Phases" in the November 1914 edition of Poetry Magazine) was written at age 35, Wallace Stevens never learned to drive. He would walk to and from work, often composing poetry along the way. During his life he was awarded the Bollinger Prize (1949), two National Book Awards (1951, 1955), and the aforementioned Pulitzer Prize (1955).
Poetry
Harmonium (1923)
Ideas of Order (1936)
Owl's Clover (1936)
The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937)
Parts of a World (1942)
Transport to Summer (1947)
The Auroras of Autumn (1950)
Collected Poems (1954)
Opus Posthumous (1957)
The Palm at the End of the Mind (1972)
Collected Poetry (1997)
Selected Poems (2009)
Prose
The Necessary Angel (essays) (1951)
Posthumous publications
Letters of Wallace James Stevens , edited by Holly Stevens (1966)
Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & Jose Rodriguez Feo, edited by Beverly Coyle and Alan Filreis (1986)
Sur plusieurs beaux sujects: Wallace Stevens's Commonplace Book , edited by Milton J. Bates (1989)
The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie Kachel , edited by D.J. Blount (2006)
Date of birth: 10/02/1879
Date of death: 08/02/1955
Area of notoriety: Literature
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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